Jamie McCartney, creator of The Great Wall of Vagina, casts American women for new work and says of the message behind his famous plaster casts: ‘You’re normal. Whatever you’ve got down there, leave it alone’

After a breakdown in 1998, Emin spent four days near unconscious in bed surrounded by the detritus of youth: vodka, condoms, cigarettes and tiny-waisted belts. As her now-notorious artwork Bed goes on public show at Tate Britain, she reflects on this time capsule of her 'complete, absolute' collapse

Dubai International is the world’s busiest airport – so just where is everyone going? Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture some of the characters travelling through it in a single day

Are these the greatest works of art in the world? From an attacking centaur to a broken river god, Jonathan Jones finds the Elgin Marbles are the highlight of the British Museum’s astonishing new exhibition of Greek sculpture

For the latest in its Commission series, the Tate hosts Christina Mackie’s giant dip-dyed fabrics and curious sculptural objects – but while initially striking, it descends into fussiness and can’t connect with the scale of the space

Spanish photographer David Ramos captures the desolation of Molina De Aragon in central eastern Spain. The region competes with Siberia and the Arctic provinces of Lapland as the least populated place in Europe

When Mike Brodie was 18, he went freighthopping across the States for five years on a whim. Tones of Dirt and Bone captures the beauty, warmth and hardship of his life on the rails and the characters he met along the way

Furious about the state of education, Patrick Brill (AKA the artist Bob and Roberta Smith) is standing against Michael Gove in the election. Nick Curtis joins him as he takes to the streets of Bagshot – converting a dog-walker and one Tory councillor to his cause